DeviantArt

The staff ruined the site with the new awful, broken buggy and messy design, deleted all the characteristics that made the site remarkable and now they are unfairly and blatantly forcing us to use it when almost all of us were fine with the old design. And as if all that were not enough, they blatantly ignore their community. It's simply outrageous and shameful. That shows that they're a bunch of shameless coward arrogant inept incompetent morons. They don't deserve respect.

It used to be much better at one time than it is now. While some good art can still be found there, it takes more and more effort to find it. The main problems now are that they do little to nothing about SPAM messages, chain-letter type messages and other garbage like that which merely misuse the comment-feature. But the overall atmosphere of the site has declined as well. Only positive and/or popular comments and opinion are allowed; any form of constructive criticism or, for that matter, any dissenting opinion of any kind, is not tolerated and even censored in some cases. It is highly ironic that a website ostensibly for creators to display their work should have evolved into an environment that is so averse to the expression of different opinions. PC Groupthink is increasingly the mindset there.

The staff will do absolutely nothing about bullying. In fact, the bullies there are actually greatly respected and playing the victim card earns them much more respect and results in you being attacked. I've reported a false call out journal made against me and even a popular bully who blasted my name in the suggestions forum when I wanted to remain anonymous for that reason and they administrators said that they don't care. Do not join this site. It's nothing more than a bullying site that hosts art. Do not give them any business whatsoever.

I got 2 negative criticism on my artwork. It would be okay, if they were right, and came from people who are better than me. I would thank them, and try to improve. However, these came from people who draw like 5 year olds and consider selfies as art. I sent them comments on their ''artwork'' too, pointing out what they did wrong and what should be improved, added. I did this in a normal manner, not like a jerk. They got so mad and sent me hate comments even on facebook. Lol. If you can't handle criticism, why do you criticize others in the first place? Or at least criticize people who are below/on your level.. I like that there are plenty of groups. I even found people who do blood paintings. The search feature could be improved. Admins don't do their job at all. People steal other's pictures. They make other DA accounts with your drawings or use them on facebook as their own. You can put DA watermark on the pictures when you upload them but it's not very visible. I would suggest to edit your pics and put your facebook link on them before uploading them to DA. Less people will steal them.

I could compare this platform to Imgur, another media sharing site, but tailored to artists. For some reason, it's way easier to spot the more questionable content than art with more effort put into them (this includes the art piece itself, as well as the content in the description). I could describe it as "freer" than other artists platforms, as there are LOTS of ways to communicate with everyone. About a couple years ago (I'm sure it was way longer before) I noticed they started to mimic Facebook status sharing, which I thought was a little strange. Even the polls thing is kind of an excessive feature to have. I understand it's all meant for more community involvement, which has happened, but there's also the responsibility of the website host as well as the artists to maintain and encourage composure throughout the community. There is a LOT of blaming and blame mongering (as you can see here). There will ALWAYS be people we like and dislike. Your success (whether it's your favorite count, watch count, etc.) on this website WILL NOT fall at your feet. This is a website where you must involve yourself in what the website has to offer and supporting other artists will help the site immensely, believe it or not. Ultimately, this website is like the gateway to the art you really want to do. If you feel you already have your skills honed, I do suggest tumblr, Artstation, or Pixiv (japanese based), even Facebook. DeviantArt can help increase your fanbase if you understand its quirks.

No recognition for your work, and people here are blind and won't listen to you if another user is trying to take you down. It looks like a friendly website at first but trust me, this site is corrupted and filled with people who are just abusers of the rules or worst. Don't waste your time.

There is a lot of problems like extreme Cyber bulling on the community. I reported it in multiple times and nothing is done. All they want to do is sit back get their pockets full of money and let this kids friendly community turn to waste. So if your child decides to sign up or look through this website, don't allow them.

This useless, worthless startup company got acquired by Wix.com, and I'd bet that Wix is embarrassed to have ever bought this festering hive of hatred and trolls. DeviantArt's staff members do NOTHING to deal with hateful, anti-gay blog posts, and it seems like this "art" website is more of a mish-mash of gossip blogs, whose useless trolly authors like to trash people and DOX people with their full names and addresses. I am filing a GDPR complaint against DeviantArt and its parent company. I highly recommend that NO ONE uses DeviantArt. Let's starve them of business, and make Wix regret ever acquiring these pigs.

I am surprised nobody speaks deeper about the community. Maybe because cartoon, videogame fans and furries are taboo outside the web. Then the serious art is closer to most people which is understandable, even though some prices are really over-the-top (400 dollars? You cannot be serious) since the art doesn't have specific purpose like design on cups or T-shirts. I'm trying to keep my eyes on this category and not accidentaly look at the other group. Of course among the fan communities there are lot of overfantasizing fanfictions and lot of sexual fanart in very provocative poses but people used to be more self-aware and joking around was on daily basis. Even though there were some unpleasant closed-minded elitist know-it-alls who could bring a "maturity" card out of the place. That was some 10 years ago and more. Now the fan communities are lot more reserved and serious about what they are doing, often anti-social, hiding strong SJW mindset behind their smiles and it's all filled with early teen request spammers. There are possibly sane people but are more reserved than similar bunch used to be. But then again the professionals don't really make up much of communities since there is as expected no time for that. They are usually polite and I respect them for what they are doing. Many make tutorials and some can be very helpful to motivate you to continue and get better in art (Hyanna-Natsu is an angel) if the time allows it. Still I've encountered enormous hypocrisy over NSFW stuff from the staff, like an innocent nudity of a 17 years old may be taken down if she isn't a Pokémon trainer or stuff like that but lot of questionable fetishes stay there. It's a strike. Then dA made a huge change to the layout which started out as promising but ended up with less of possibilities and the only way to switch to the original is to be online. They risked a lot but it's still there. If they remove it, they are damned. Also I saw some masterpieces with just 2 ciphers of favourites nowadays which is a huge shame, fanarts are much bigger magnet for users. But I don't really understand how people are saying there is no freedom of speech when you can say practically everything. Well, look at MugenArchive and compare it in this aspect. Don't get shocked.

I've been a member of the dA community since 2009 and honestly I loved it up until the moment WIX bought them out. At that moment the staff just stopped caring. They offer beta testing for website updates but don't bother to even reply to the reviews given to them by their beta testers. They've even blocked the option to share public opinions of the websites updates. Everything they've done the past few years just sceams that they don't care anymore. Their new website layout isnt the worst thing in the world, but its buggy and not ready to leave beta testing. Its not even original, they are just taking the coding from a different website WIX runs and copying and pasting it with little to no changes. They do nothing to prevent art theft in their community, and they allow trolls and bully's to run rampant in the community. You cant even report art theft unless you pay a $10 fee to file legal action to take down the stolen art. They don't even support their young artists and new members to the community. They host contests but the same 10 or so famous artists win each time. they only feature art from their long standing big named artists repeatedly so it is next to impossible to make a name for yourself in the community. I could go on for days with a long list of reasons the WIX takeover has ruined dA, but bottom line is that it isnt worth bothering to make an account on this website anymore unless you want to be ignored by staff and dont want to be taken seriously as an artist.

I shouldn't log in to see porn scattered throughout the front page. I shouldn't see admins (ESPECIALLY REALITYSQUARED!) $#*!talking the websites' own members. There's a lot of diversity on the website and a lack of community because of it. Kids join the site and lie about their age (they need to make it harder for children to join the site). Staff does nothing about trolls, although staff like thesquidarrives hired recently has gotten better at getting to reports faster. If someone is a known troll you can't report them, only block, which sucks because they'll move on to harassing someone else. Stamps need to be $#*!ing banned. They cause nothing but drama and fights. This is a site for art, not political/religious debate. CORE is overpriced now. If you want it at all I suggest only buying it when they have the winter sale where you buy three get three free or something like that. The website needs to close. It's old and has so many dead accounts it's not even funny.

DeviantArt is full of wonderful art (like the picture listed), and stories. There are alot of groups you can join and alot of chats you can talk on. You can sell art and join competitions when they are on. Aside from this... If you fall down the rabbit hole then you will get lost in the dirty, messed up side of this website. Not to say that other websites don't have a dark side, Deviantart's dark side is way more toxic than the normal.

Not a real art site since it was purchased and changed ownership. A lot of pedophilia, fetishism, and perverts and cell phone shots of cam girls T&A. If you don't believe me, just look at their front page or in the search engine or the other previews about this site from other members at the bottom of the page. And forget about reporting this stuff to DA staff, you will be the one to get in trouble.. The major famous artists that used to use this platform moved on to places like Artstation. Real artists are no longer celebrated. This company only follows the money now. I wouldn't want to associate my art with this place. Not too mention the virus and spam for sex messages you receive in your inbox daily...Now with eclipse rolling out, they're trying to be like station's jealous little sister by mimicking them, but DA's quality of art will never amount to Artstation. Eclipse is basically shiny pretty bows and gift wrapping to a pile of perverted poo.

the new reworked site is horrifically stupid, though it still allows the hoes to sell their dirty under pants and filthy photos that are in no way artistic nudes-- where kids are, good going deviant art you now are amongst the ranks of myspace. this site has very little to do with real art especially these days. there is a big difference between artistic nudes and flat out porn shots, don't even waste your time reporting the insertion photos, deviant art is nothing but a hack, porn site at this point, a decade ago it was contests and fan art, now just wow how low you have sunken, not to mention the pedos trying to lure children for nude drawings? WTF?

All you have to do is give an opinion or just simply be different and that's enough to tick somebody off! I've seen people get away unpunished with posting autism comments, such as calling something they don't like autistic or autism or even outright hate speech against autistic people, such as how autism is apparently synonymous with mental $#*!ation (it's not), and popular users may be the nastiest people alive! They can get away with writing a polemic journal against you, effectively sending their MASSIVE fan base after you to attack you, that actually lead someone I once followed into suicide! I even reported that this person caused their death and the staff heartlessly DID NOTHING! This murderer is still roaming free on the site after what they've done. And trust me, suicides by bullying are VERY common on this site!

Don't let the good reviews about this site fool you. It's not what it once was. Few years ago it was a good art site, now it has become a playground for upcoming criminals, who hides behind all excuses you can think of. These people from justice groups somewhere have got the idea that it's okay to harass other people with journals, where justice groups writes lies about them and doesn't provide opinions of all involved sides, just the opinion, which is beneficial for justice groups. What makes it more sad is that these justice group members are children, who has no idea how law works so if you don't want your child to become the next criminal, who successfully destroys innocent people's reputation and does other bad things, then please watch what your children are doing on the internet. All big bad things always starts with small bad things. Staff is the worst, because they don't do anything to stop these cyberbullies known as justice groups, which is why on this site you can try criminal's life without consequences. These justice groups are also hypocrites, they think they can judge and criticize everyone, and force you to accept a critique from certain user, while they won't wish to hear anything about critiques, which are for them and will refuse to accept them. In short, avoid this site at all costs, because there's a very high chance you will meet bullies on this site, which will bully you so far that you might even lose your self respect, especially that can happen if you don't join justice group drama and don't support justice group opinion. They think it's great to be a copy of someone else and pretend that you always are happy sunshine. Well, it's not good at all. This is how you can lose yourself so, please, don't go there! You will save yourself from many unnecessary troubles, issues, dramas and other negativity, if you will avoid this bully nest.

I tried deviant art and I love it but Deviantart eclipse is the worst I would rather stick with the original Deviantart so everyone please do not I repeat not use Deviantart eclipse it will make it hard for you as a deviant.

I was deceived by DeviantArt after I bought a large, 30x40 inch printed image (Rainbow Metatron's Cube), worth about 63 Euro, made by Lillyas (https://www.deviantart.com/lilyas/shop/ prints). I received an incomplete image, cropped on the sides, without any value. Both the author, Lily Andrea Seidel and the seller, DeviantArt, consider it a mistake, and refuse to replace the broken, already paid product. It is clear that both DeviantArt and Lily Andrea Seidel cheated me and took my 63 euros abusively.

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